Lot 577
  • 577

MARK TOBEY | Jazz Singer

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Mark Tobey
  • Jazz Singer
  • Signed Tobey and dated '54 (lower right)
  • Gouache, ink and pencil on paper mounted to paper
  • 17 3/4 by 11 5/8 in.
  • 45.1 by 29.5 cm
  • Executed in 1954.

Provenance

Willard Gallery, New York
Wallace K. Harrison, New York (acquired from the above in 1955)
A gift from the above

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, 1969, n.n.

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The right edge is deckled. The sheet undulates slightly due to the artist's working method. There is drying cracquelure present in the areas of white paint, especially in the lower left corner. The sheet is hinged verso to cardboard along the top edge and the cardboard is hinged verso to the mat at the top corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"[Tobey’s] highly sensitive technique captures something of the fleeting values of our life; it is an expression adequate for times like ours, where old-accustomed stability has give way to changed concepts of space, where boundaries are almost non-existent, and in which time itself has acquired new definitions; in which the intricacies of existence overlay the fundamentals of life and man as never before has to struggle for a way out. Like poetry and music, his pictures have the time element, they unfold their contents gradually. With an active imagination they have to be approached, read and their symbols interpreted. They reveal their tenor if one listens with the inner ear, "the ear of the heart," as Jean Paul calls it."

Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of the Mark Tobey Project LLC, has confirmed the authenticity. The work is registered in the Mark Tobey archive with the number MT [251-12-12-18] and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.